Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2024’s Ones to Watch winners selected by an esteemed panel of judges. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are written in their own words with minor edits made by the editor for readability and where relevant, supplemented with additional commentary by their nominator.
In 2024, the awards were sponsored by BT, Think Cybersecurity Ltd. and Plexal, with Eskenzi PR, Assured and Women in Cybersecurity UK & Ireland Affiliate as partners.
What does your role entail?
As a BT cybersecurity apprentice my role is split between investigating real-world security threats and developing my knowledge through university studies in computer science. In terms of my day-to-day work in security operations, I’m part of a team which specialises in looking at network security. This role involves me looking at incoming alerts and analysing them to determine how much of a threat they could be to both BT and its customers. This includes looking into the network traffic and determining whether it is a malicious attack, or just a false positive. With this information we can then deploy mitigation strategies to ensure that attacks are not successful and help safeguard from similar attacks in the future.
When not working in security operations I study at the University of Suffolk, doing a degree in D ..
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